Posts by Whitney Museum of American Art

Forrest Nash: "when we talk about negotiating with an artist and the artist's agency in terms of who can do what, there's just a changing relationship between a viewer and an art work that makes it no longer appropriate to dictate how people interact with an artwork"

Forrest Nash: "when we talk about negotiating with an artist and the artist's agency in terms of who can do what, there's just a changing relationship between a viewer and an art work that makes it no longer appropriate to dictate how people interact with an artwork"

João Enxuto: "these technologies that we're talking about are deployed within the museum through corporate funding, and also the tools that we use--if we want to engage a public--are tools of quantification. So, if there is to be a partnership there needs to be more a equitable one."

João Enxuto: "these technologies that we're talking about are deployed within the museum through corporate funding, and also the tools that we use--if we want to engage a public--are tools of quantification. So, if there is to be a partnership there needs to be more a equitable one."

Forrest Nash: "getting too invested in the specifics of where we happen to be in this particular moment isn't necessarily something we need to problematize because they're all going to be obviated by inevitable march forward"

Forrest Nash: "getting too invested in the specifics of where we happen to be in this particular moment isn't necessarily something we need to problematize because they're all going to be obviated by inevitable march forward"

Sarah Hromack: "The notion of having a partial , even fragmented aggregate of a museum's visitorship is an attractive one....Viewed in aggregate, museum-selfies form a collective portrait of privilege and access."

Sarah Hromack: "The notion of having a partial , even fragmented aggregate of a museum's visitorship is an attractive one....Viewed in aggregate, museum-selfies form a collective portrait of privilege and access."

Forrest Nash: "I'm going to suggest a simple premise perhaps that can be agreed or disagreed with during conversation. There's an important change happening in museums, but rather than thinking about the viewers' use of devices within the museum, there's a much larger change happening before viewers' arrival at the museum--the ubiquitous availability of images online."

Forrest Nash: "I'm going to suggest a simple premise perhaps that can be agreed or disagreed with during conversation. There's an important change happening in museums, but rather than thinking about the viewers' use of devices within the museum, there's a much larger change happening before viewers' arrival at the museum--the ubiquitous availability of images online."